Members of Congress need to put public safety first and approve dedicated funding for the regular upkeep, rehabilitation or ...

Over 22 inches of rain fell across the Lake Lure Dam watershed, leading to catastrophic damage to the town and surrounding ...

NORTH CAROLINA — When Tropical Storm Helene brought massive rainfall ... High-hazard potential areas are areas where if a dam were to fail, the risk of death is probable. Significant hazard ...

The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday after Hurricane Helene inundated the area ... early Friday morning that the dam could fail. Olivia Stewman, the Lake Lure town ...

Seven of 9 regulated dams that failed in November deluge were in poor condition at last DHEC inspection; 5 hadn't been ...

As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became ... United States’ post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing. Officials last week said multiple ...

Asheville Water said it has inspected the dam several times since Helene and confirmed some repairs need to be made but it is “not in any immediate danger of failing”.

Just a week before Hurricane Helene brought flooding to East Tennessee on Sept. 27, TVA invested $2.2 million into updating its River Forecast Center at its complex in downtown Knoxville. From the ...

As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing.